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Harnessing Nehemiah's Wisdom: Mastering Work & Faith. · Mrs. PIE

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  Speaker 1: THE KRAFT.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another Come Out of the Wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday morning prayer, god, is awesome and I wonder, for those of y'all who are watching us live especially, what were your first words this morning?
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  Speaker 1: My first words, but thank you, lord, for saving me.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, lord, for saving me.
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  Speaker 1: So, lord, we thank you for saving us, thank you for bringing us into Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for giving us another chance, another opportunity to come into this day, to be the light on our jobs, to be the light in our families, to be the light in our communities.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for renewed fire, lord God, our fire of Love for you, lord God, thank you for renewed hope in us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, lord, god, that you have, you've brought us to see this moment.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, we just thank you for all the blessings for today and and the teaching and the message that you're sharing today.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, we thank you that you love us so much, that you're.
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  Speaker 1: You're speaking to our heart, you're speaking to our minds.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for this program.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for every single person who are, who watches, those who are faithful, those who are, who are Lawyer, loyal, those who are watching us live, those who are listening to us on the podcast, those who are watching us on the YouTube Street.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for every single ear, ear and I and heart, lord, god, that comes before this program.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting to hear from you and I bless them.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We're God and Jesus things.
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  Speaker 1: So my first words, amen Tracy says her first words are thank you, lord, for waking me up, and I shared this just a little sidebar before we go into today.
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  Speaker 1: We're continuing our faith at work series, but I shared this in a post with our prayer ministry about your last words and your first words and your last words before I, before I shut my my eyes at night you know this is after I say good night to my family, but my last words are something that tie me back to heaven, where I'm asking you know, lord, prepare me to meet you in my dreams.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, I believe in everything.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for the day and, my friend, I mean the words that you utter, you speak, and then the first words, and it's so important because words create, words destroy, and so my first words are thank you Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, lord.
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  Speaker 1: So I am so excited we're on the third part of our study faith at work and whether you are on the job, meaning you have a, you know, job right now, or you're a business owner.
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  Speaker 1: You're, you want to be a business owner, even if you in a seer, in a season where you're looking for a job.
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  Speaker 1: All of these teachings in January, faith at work is really going to help you.
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  Speaker 1: So just a quick Recap on we started out with vision planning.
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  Speaker 1: We, you know, we talked about, you know, being very strategic in our vision and the way that we plan and Taking the time to assess what's, what's around you, the people, the resources, the things that you need.
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  Speaker 1: Before you have to have a clear vision before you.
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  Speaker 1: You decide what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: This year we launched this event called soar and we were tying everything, everything back to sore, sore stands for Spirit, led, obedient, anointed and renewed, and so y'all go back and check out that, the video, check out the replays.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the audible, you know wherever you get your audio Podcasts out there.
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  Speaker 1: So go back and listen to that, because there were clear instructions to help you, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Get your hearts ready for what the Lord is going to show you this year so we can all soar in 24 a man.
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  Speaker 1: So the first first part was around vision planning.
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  Speaker 1: The second part that we covered was how you overcome Oppositions.
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  Speaker 1: So we talked about overcoming different challenges that Nehemiah faced and some of the challenges that we face and sometimes where they were the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: So we, you know, go back again these, these faith at work series.
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  Speaker 1: They're on the YouTube Street so you can again.
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  Speaker 1: You can either watch the replay or can listen wherever you get your podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And this week we're talking about unity.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about being united in prayer and purpose, but it's really around unity in action.
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  Speaker 1: So, before I launch into Nehemiah 5, we're gonna study a little bit more around how he Managed faith and leadership and all those things.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of things that I want to show you in, or talk to you about in Nehemiah 3 and I'm gonna encourage you to go back because it's a pretty long chapter but Nehemiah, you know, nehemiah 3 really details how he was working with different groups and individuals who were involved in building different sections of the wall and he had to have unity in order to get it done right.
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  Speaker 1: Nehemiah 4, verse 6, says so we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half as high, for the people worked with all their heart.
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  Speaker 1: And so, as you're looking at ways to build out whether it's a project that you're working on or your business, whatever it is that you're trying to build it is so important to have unity in what you're working on.
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  Speaker 1: People work with all their heart, meaning that they were aligned to the mission.
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  Speaker 1: Their heart.
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  Speaker 1: You know again, because what's in your heart shows up in your work, what's in your heart shows up in your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: What you speak, it shows up in your actions, right, it shows up in your thought.
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  Speaker 1: So, as they rebuilt the wall, you know the people worked with all their hearts that they were aligned on the mission.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a warning also as you're thinking about how you rebuild, you know if you're trying to launch something new and you don't have unity and you you're causing you know I call them chaos bombs You're just throwing chaos bombs and you haven't demonstrated any sort of teamwork and you're not achieving any side of common goal.
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  Speaker 1: Is just your mission to look good on the project?
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  Speaker 1: Don't be disappointed in people who are like I don't wanna be involved in that chaos bomb, right?
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  Speaker 1: So again, nehemiah 3 talks about teamwork, rebuilding, and it's a pretty long chapter, and these are those chapters y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Just to be honest, you know how in the word when it talks about the lineage and sometimes we skip past that because we're like I don't need to know all that you do.
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  Speaker 1: Nehemiah 3, it details the groups and the individuals, and the reason I want you to go back and read the full chapter is because it shows you the different, diverse groups that were involved and, a lot of times, especially Christian folks.
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  Speaker 1: We wanna work with the people who think like we do, who believe what we do, who act like us, who speak like us.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is you have to be practical and that need to work together, whether it's in your community or in your church or on your job.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to work with people who come with different packages, baggage all those things right, and so that Nehemiah 3 will help you.
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  Speaker 1: Just see how Nehemiah was successfully working with all these different groups.
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  Speaker 1: They had all different assignments, but they had a common goal.
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  Speaker 1: They were working with all their heart to one common goal and that goal was to rebuild the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a word for somebody around leadership and teamwork, you gotta have the collective effort of the people so that you're tying it back to the common goal.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So now let me go to Nehemiah 5, and I'm gonna share my screen for this one, because I do wanna make sure that y'all see what I'm seeing.
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  Speaker 1: So let me just grab, for those of y'all who are listening on the podcast streets, I am sharing my screen and I'm gonna read it out.
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  Speaker 1: So, nehemiah, this is Nehemiah 5, this is the ESV version and this is Nehemiah 5, verse six.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna read some of this because now we're looking at Nehemiah in a different perspective.
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  Speaker 1: This is where he has heard about some of the hardships and then his response and we're talking about unity.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so verse six says I was very angry when I heard the outcry and these words.
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  Speaker 1: I took counsel with myself and I brought charges against the nobles and officials and I said to them you're exacting interest, each from his brother.
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  Speaker 1: So here's a situation where Nehemiah is made it's very clear that there's some things going on.
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  Speaker 1: He heard the outcry of the people, but I think where a lot of us make mistakes if I can just say that, especially believers is you hear the outcry and you might pray, but you don't take any other action.
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  Speaker 1: You just pray and wait for God to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: And again, if you're a Christian, you believe that we have the minion on this plane called earth.
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  Speaker 1: So you gotta do something right.
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  Speaker 1: So here is Nehemiah.
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  Speaker 1: He was very angry.
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  Speaker 1: He heard the outcry, which means that he also put himself in a position to hear the outcry.
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  Speaker 1: So again, a lot of us, we are on the jobs and we're so titled and entitled that we don't wanna be bothered with the folks who are doing the labor.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we're so puffed up in ourselves that we're not even within the community anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You're a senior leader.
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  Speaker 1: You don't walk the floor past the cafeteria.
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  Speaker 1: You don't wanna be bothered with those people.
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  Speaker 1: You're so puffed up in your title that you don't wanna be on the ground anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a correction for you.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be able to hear, you gotta be in position where you can hear the outcry of the people.
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  Speaker 1: Then, if you're not, then what are you praying for?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing right?
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  Speaker 1: So he was angry.
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  Speaker 1: He heard the outcry and these words, and so it says he took counsel with himself.
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  Speaker 1: So he went back, he had to think about what he's gonna do and you know, because Nehemiah was a praying man, he was asked in the Lord for direction.
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  Speaker 1: But then it says that he brought charges against the nobles and the officials and he said to them so the rest of the verses tell you exactly what he did he confronted them about what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: They were basically taking interest.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great assembly against them.
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  Speaker 1: He was doing something right.
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  Speaker 1: When we come all the way down to verse 11, now he's coming up with a solution right.
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  Speaker 1: So again, it wasn't just him being angry and hearing the outcry, he took an action, he did something about it right.
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  Speaker 1: And part of this, what he was doing was also creating unity among the people, right.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's saying to the nobles return to them this very day their fields and their vineyards, their olive orchards and their houses, all those things right.
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  Speaker 1: And verse 12, you see that then they said so there was a negotiation, something happened.
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  Speaker 1: So even in order to make this happen, this negotiation had to take place.
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  Speaker 1: So there was unity at the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: And the word says then they said we will restore these and require nothing from them.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have the kind of favor that when you go before God and you pray for favor and then you go out into the streets and you fight for someone that there is a fruit in that, or are you just throwing chaos bombs?
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So they said we will do as you say.
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  Speaker 1: And he called the priests and made them swear to do as they promised.
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  Speaker 1: And again, this is another situation where sometimes you got a hold of the men and women have got accountable for what they promised, amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so verse 13 says this is a prophetic act.
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  Speaker 1: He also shook out the fold of his garment and said so may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep his promise.
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  Speaker 1: So may he be shaken out and emptied.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're going against this unity, if you're breaking it right, if you're going against this promise, that they will be shaken out and emptied.
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  Speaker 1: And then everybody said amen and praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: What an amazing act of building unity.
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  Speaker 1: So just think about this for a second.
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  Speaker 1: As you're going into again, into your workplace, into anything that you're doing, how are you making sure that there is unity, not just in prayer, but in purpose?
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  Speaker 1: This is what purpose looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Again, but those of you who are on the jobs or again in the communities in any way that you're on the street, you're listening?
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  Speaker 1: If you're, you know Christians that tell me that?
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  Speaker 1: You know they don't.
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  Speaker 1: You know they don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't interact with those type of people.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was talking to everybody that looked like sinners and all okay.
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  Speaker 1: So where are you positioned so that you can hear the outcry of the people, so that then you can pray for those individuals?
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  Speaker 1: I don't like my boss, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, have you heard the outcry of your bosses heart and have you taken that and have you prayed over that?
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  Speaker 1: Have you taken any action?
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  Speaker 1: Have you done anything?
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  Speaker 1: Have you you know?
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  Speaker 1: Have you done anything to be a part of the solution, or you're just gonna?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I prayed and leave it at that, right, unity needs action.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
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  Speaker 1: I love this so much, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: This is a word for somebody.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about more, more about actions, and talk to you about how Nehemiah was responding to distraction.
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  Speaker 1: This is a.
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  Speaker 1: This is a big one, so I'm gonna share my screen.
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  Speaker 1: This is Nehemiah six, verse three.
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  Speaker 1: So just bear with me, y'all, for those y'all who are listening.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I gotta respect my listening community, okay, so I'm gonna go to this.
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  Speaker 1: This happened, this happened.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna tell you this happened to me too.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this was a meeting movement for me yesterday, but I prayed through it in God, one Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a the chapter that I'm looking at, nehemiah six.
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  Speaker 1: This is the ESV version and the headline said the conspiracy against Nehemiah, and it talks about and I'm gonna contextualize a little bit Now in Sambalot and Tobiah and Jesh, on the Arab and the rest of our enemies, hurt, heard that I had built the wall your enemies know what you're doing, okay and that there was no breach left in it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, that mean there's no breach.
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  Speaker 1: It was successful, although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates, so he was still working on it.
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  Speaker 1: Sambalot and Jesh sent to me saying I mean, they sent messages, messengers, come and let us meet together in hacker frame in the plane of Odo, but they intended to do me harm and I sent messages.
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  Speaker 1: Notice, nehemiah didn't go himself because he knew that it was a setup and I sent messages to them saying I am doing a great work and I cannot come down.
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  Speaker 1: Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?
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  Speaker 1: This is a message for those of you who are in the business of doing the business.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is about distraction.
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  Speaker 1: This is about distraction.
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  Speaker 1: This is a warning for those of y'all who also get easily distracted, especially when it sounds good, when someone's oh, the Lord told me to reach out to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to reach out.
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  Speaker 1: He's like if he wants to talk to you, he's going to talk to you directly.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to be mindful that there are people that are watching your progress.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that are watching you on the job with a new project that you got.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that are watching you with a new car you got.
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  Speaker 1: There are people.
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  Speaker 1: People are watching, ok, and you got to be mindful when they, when those distractions show up, when it's outside of the course that you've set, like, if you're supposed to be doing a thing, finish that thing, right, I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 1: When he says I'm doing a great work and I cannot come down, why should I stop the work while I leave it and come down to you?
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  Speaker 1: What is the purpose of this meeting?
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  Speaker 1: What is the purpose of this call?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I going to stop the?
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  Speaker 1: You know you're, you're, you're, you know leaning into, you know praying for your kids and all of a sudden, I'm just, I'm just telling you real stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Ok, and so you know, we, finally your family's gone back to church and all of a sudden, the other family members you haven't heard from in a while now they want to have a cookout on Sunday, but you got to come up there on Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: That means you can't go to church.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: Go to church first.
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  Speaker 1: Ok, I'm just telling you like this is the way that it works and you have to be.
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  Speaker 1: So when you talk about I'm in prayer and I'm in purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You got to know what a distraction looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Ok, you got to know that everybody's opinion is just an opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the Lord and ask him what he says about a thing.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to show up for everything.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, don't be distracted.
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  Speaker 1: If he's, if he told you to start the business, start the business.
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  Speaker 1: If he told you to write the book and you're, 20 years later, not writing the book, maybe you missed that term, but go back and finish what you start.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be so distracted.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let gifts distract you.
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  Speaker 1: Gifts in the time, gifts, physical gifts, not spiritual gifts, physical gifts.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know you're, you're doing your thing and all of a sudden the accolades are coming and you know, and now you're distracted by the accolades that are coming.
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  Speaker 1: You can't see the.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're not following through on what you need because you're so busy caught up in the accolades.
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  Speaker 1: You're busy caught up on the spotlight because you know, hey, I've been through a rough season on my job but I just got promoted.
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  Speaker 1: And so now you, now you're caught up in the promotion and the accolades and you falling off the path and not finishing what you should do.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be distracted.
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  Speaker 1: He's called you to do such a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Do such a thing, amen, don't be distracted.
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  Speaker 1: And I say that from the bottom of my heart because I'm telling you I went through a 20 year wilderness of distraction, of attack, you name it.
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  Speaker 1: It was coming and I was distracted, I wasn't focused on doing what God had called me to do.
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  Speaker 1: And the moment I woke up it was 20 years there, 20 years in this emotional, spiritual wilderness, right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, god for taking care of us, even while we're in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Look, thank you that there is a hand in health, even while we're in the wilderness, right.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to stay on course, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: You got to stay on course.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about soaring this year and we want to be spirit led.
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  Speaker 1: Well, to be spirit led, you can't be distracted by the attacks that are coming.
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  Speaker 1: Pray it, pray it out Psalm 35,.
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  Speaker 1: Cancel that thing and move on.
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  Speaker 1: God will take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be obedient, you got to actually be obedient.
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  Speaker 1: That's an action that means you got to step out of your comfort zone.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I had to step out of my comfort zone and allow myself to be opened up.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, within our prayer ministry, right Every day there's a shift and a change, which you've got to be obedient to.
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  Speaker 1: Those moves when they come.
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  Speaker 1: I have to be obedient to the people that I work for.
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  Speaker 1: I have to respect my leader.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a leader myself, but you still have to respect the leaders that God has placed in your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's obedience.
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  Speaker 1: Can you be obedient with the small things that God has given you?
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  Speaker 1: You're asking for all these other things, but you can't take care of the small things.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're getting frustrated and jealous.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, y'all, we got to do better.
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  Speaker 1: We go sore this year and anointed right.
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  Speaker 1: We all have gifts, we all have talents.
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  Speaker 1: The gift you have is the gift you have.
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  Speaker 1: The talent I have is the talent I have.
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  Speaker 1: But how are you using them?
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  Speaker 1: Are you distracted when he tells you, when you say, oh, I don't know what my purpose is.
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  Speaker 1: I want to lean into what God has for me.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, what are you using your gifts and talents for?
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to steal from anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: What's yours is yours.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need what you have.
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  Speaker 1: I got what I have, amen.
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  Speaker 1: But how are you using your gifts and talents?
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  Speaker 1: In unity, right?
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  Speaker 1: How are you using that to build other people up?
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  Speaker 1: How are you using it to serve your business?
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  Speaker 1: How are you using it to take care of your colleagues and your family and your friends?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing that?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And then being renewed.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I had very little sleep last night.
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  Speaker 1: I had major attacks in my head, just including migraines.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like stuff was just.
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  Speaker 1: It was a long night, but you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I woke up renewed and refreshed, because I got it brought me through another store.
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  Speaker 1: I knew that as I walked through this, this challenge, I knew that as I walked through this attack, when I woke up this morning I had to thank God for what he I woke up in the house with heat, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with a job.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with health.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with my husband and daughter they are alive.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with so much more than I went to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with greater grace.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with greater faith.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with greater belief.
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  Speaker 1: What did you wake up with this morning?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Are you waking up worried and in doubt and in fear, y'all you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: You've got to change some of those things.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking about?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: How are you not giving that stuff back to God?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Why are you acting as if you're God in your life?
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I'm at peace because I know the Holy Spirit has everything covered on these calls.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I just show up, amen.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I just show up and he takes over.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I'm at peace at all times.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: So I just want to urge you to be renewed in your mind, renewed in your thoughts, y'all.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you've got to take a break.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Some of y'all are on.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Take a talk.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You know too much searching out scripture, searching out someone to trigger you to say something that makes you feel good in the morning.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe you need to come off TikTok and just go into the word for a minute if you're trying to hear from God.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Come off TikTok, come off TikTok and just come into the word.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe you just need a quiet time so God can speak to you directly, right?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Because those constant streams, those constant streams, some of those people are acting y'all you don't even know what's out there.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: So if you're looking to have a relationship with God, you need to come into the word and have a relationship with God and he will send you people, he will send you hell, right, amen.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I just told y'all about SOAR, right, and I intend to SOAR in 2024.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Listen, I intend to SOAR.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: There is a fire in my blood.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I think Tracy and I were on the same.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: We were on a call last night was by a harvest church in North Carolina.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Shout out to harvest church because they have a revival going on, and so y'all can find harvest church on the YouTube streets.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: They were talking about the fire and this is the year of more.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: This is more for me.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna speak that for myself.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: This is a year of more for my family, more in my business, more on my career, more in my health, more in grace, more in mercy, more in blessings.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: What are you asking God?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: What are you positioning yourself for?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: But before you get all these blessings, you gotta be united.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: You cannot be the person that throws the chaos bombs.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: You cannot be the person that say I'm gonna pray for you and don't pray for you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You have to align your purpose with unity, right?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: You gotta know how to work with people and not make it about yourself.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Amen, and that doesn't matter what title you have, how long you've been in business, how long you've been a leader, amen, you cannot right.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: So, father, we just thank you for your renewal in our hearts.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Lord, god, that we will come to you differently when it comes to being united.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Lord, I ask that you charge our hearts this morning, that, lord, that you'll work on us and show us every single area where we need a heart check, we need a spirit check, and how we're coming to you.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: How are we being united, lord God, through your love and your grace, lord God, I pray that every single person under the side of my words will catch the word that's meant for them and that they will go forth in this day and be the person that's united.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Lord, there's so much more than just praying that we gotta do something, that we gotta be in position where we hear the outcry of people who don't look like us.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: We gotta hear the outcry of people who are broken, people who are hurt.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: We even have to hear the outcry of people who are blessed in this season, lord God, so we can continue to encourage them.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Lord, so I pray over every single person, whether they're a manager or a supervisor.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe they're leading one person.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: If they have a company, whoever is listening and watching that they will have a heart that's there to serve.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And, lord God, that they will be united.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: United.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And thank you, lord, that you woke us up today, you have blessed us, and that we are gonna get more.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: We are gonna get more in this year.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Amen, y'all.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you, holy Spirit, y'all.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Please, on the YouTube streets, don't forget to like the video so we can get the word out and share, share, share, share.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Bless y'all.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, y'all.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: This really blessed me.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I hope this blessed you as well, and I will be back next Thursday.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: If you're looking for a space where you can come and pray, come out of the wilderness, you can come find us on the Facebook streets.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: If you're the person saying I'm not on Facebook, create a Facebook account, right, if this is important to you, your spiritual walk and spiritual.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: If this is important to you, create a Facebook account and just come find us.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Come out of the wilderness on Facebook, let's see how important this is to you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Go to Grace and group media to sign up.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: We have a vision board event coming up on February 18th.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It's three o'clock, it's free and it's on Zoom.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Y'all need to come out for that event.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be shifting.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Now that we've come through SOAR, we're gonna move into creating a vision board.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: It's free, graceandgripmediacom, and I'm gonna keep reminding y'all don't miss these free events y'all.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: We're here to help and serve you in any way we can.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: God bless you and I will see you next week.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Bye, music.